London CONTENTS TO VOL. II. PART II.” (GEORGE II. and GEORGE 111) £ SAMUEL JOHNSON 179-1781. The Vanity of Human Wishes Page - 248 CUTHBERT SHAW. 1738-1771. Monody to the Memory of a young Lady JOHN LANGHORNE. Died in 1779. Owen of Carron THOMAS PENROSE. 1743-1779. 292 299 303 To Miss Slocock -320 Elegy on Leaving the River of Plate 321 SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE. 1723-1780. Farewell to the Muse 323 SIR JOHN HENRY MOORE, Bart. Page Absence.-An Elegy The Debtor SIR WILLIAM JONES. 1746–1794. Laura; an Elegy from Petrarch An Ode of Petrarch Solima.-An Arabian Eclogue A Persian Song of Hafez A Song from the Persian Song.-Wake, ye MASON 1725-1797. - 357 366 365 366 .368 374 377 378 379 381 382 383 ib. 384 386 388 Tam patiens urbis, tam ferreus ut teneat se? THO Juv. HOUGH grief and fondness in my breast rebel, When injur'd Thales bids the town farewell, Yet still my calmer thoughts his choice commend, I praise the hermit, but regret the friend, Who now resolves, from vice and London far, To breathe in distant fields a purer air, And, fix'd on Cambria's solitary shore, Give to St. David one true Briton more. For who would leave, unbrib'd, Hibernia's land, Or change the rocks of Scotland for the Strand? There none are swept by sudden fate away, But all whom hunger spares, with age decay: Here malice, rapine, accident, conspire, And now a rabble rages, now a fire; Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey; Here falling houses thunder on your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead. While Thales waits the wherry that contains Of dissipated wealth the small remains, On Thames's banks, in silent thought we stood, Where Greenwich smiles upon the silver flood: Vol. II. M Struck with the seat that gave Eliza birth, A transient calm the happy scenes bestow, Some secret cell, ye pow'rs, indulgent give, Let such raise palaces, and manors buy, With warbling eunuchs fill a licens'd stage, Queen Elizabeth, born at Greenwich. |